Cisco’s most efficient Catalyst Switch - 2960-XR
Cisco has brought new inventions into their existing 2000 series model switches, they have unveiled a new version in the category of Catalyst Switches which are the 2960-X and 2960-XR, both have doubled the stacking capacity in ports, bandwidth, buffers and CPU performance compared to their predecessors the 2960-S series.
2960-X and XR are available in 2 specifications 24 and 48 port models. These switches are the next generation of Cisco switches which are more intelligent and power saving machines as it complies with the standards of IEEE energy efficient Ethernet along with Cisco’s wise energy software installed in the switches. Cisco claims that the switches can save around 80% of energy compared to its rival models.
The per port energy consumption is nearly half than the previous Cisco 2000 series switches. It has intelligent system that powers down the links that are not active and hibernate during the downtime which is ‘downlink mode’.
Cisco 2960-X switches can be stacked up to connect with the previous 2960-S. It also supports the Power over Ethernet ‘PoE’ and ‘PoE+’. Cisco 2960-X and XR switches are workable on layer 3 routing like the RIP, EIGRP and OSPF.
 The Cisco Catalyst Switch 2960-X Series Switches, are also line-rate nonblocking switches with the following new features compared to S series:
 Dual-core CPU at 600 MHz
 Cisco FlexStack-Plus stacking
 Upto 80 Gbps bandwidth
 Upto 8-member stack
NetFlow-Lite on all downlink and uplink ports
24 port fan less model with 2 S0FP and 210/100/1000BT uplinks
Switch Hibernation mode integrated with Cisco EnergyWiseâ„¢
Signed Cisco IOSÂ Software images
128 MB of flash for -X
1k active VLANs
4 MB of egress buffers
4 SPAN sessions
16k MAC’s for -X
 The 2960-XR series have some additional features in comparison to the features in the 2960-X model.
·        Dual-FRU power supply with integrated fan
·        Layer 3 features with IP Lite feature set
·        48 Ether channel groups
·        Configurable 8 queues per port (standalone)
·        256 MB of flash for -XR
·        32k MACs for -XR
 The Cisco Catalyst Switch 2960-X Series are available with a common universal image and will support LAN Lite, LAN Base feature sets.
New Cisco 2960-X series switches are very expensive and small business who are not able to buy new models can also rely on used 2960-X switches which are reliable and will perform the exact functionalities which a new one does. But these models are not easy to find in market as used models are not excessively available. You can search out Netmode to buy Cisco 2960-X Cisco models easily and with satisfaction of buying authentic switches and Cisco products.
